D.C. Williams

American metaphysician who introduced the trope theory of properties and argued for a four-dimensionalist (worm) theory of persistence and a deflationary account of temporal passage.

Trope theory: the basic constituents of reality are abstract particulars (tropes) — the redness of this tomato — not universal properties. The Myth of Passage: the sense of temporal flow is an illusion; the universe is a four-dimensional manifold and we mistake our position within it for motion. Influenced David Lewis's perdurantism.